Car-coupling



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as. CARTER.

INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD S. CARTER, OF KEOKUK, IOWA.

CA R-COUPLING.

V SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,950, dated. March13, 1883.

Application filed September 23, 1882. (N model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD S. CARTER, of Keokuk, Lee county, Iowa, haveinvented a new and Improved Oar-Coupling, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

My invention consists ofa clevis-shaped link connected by its ends tothe draw-bar of ordinary form by a bolt passing through thedrawbarhorizontally and extending each way therefrom to the sides of thecar, where it is cranked to be worked by hand for swinging the link upand down to couple with a strong head of the ordinary coupling-pinprojecting upward from the draw-bar, and securing a common link in thesocket of the drawbar, making an extremely-sin: ple device to beoperated from the sides of the car, or from the top, to which a rodextends from an arm on the link bolt for the purpose, all as hereinafterfully described.

Reference is to be had to the-accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in

which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding partsin bothfigures.

Figurel is a perspective view of the end of a freight carwith myimproved coupling de vices applied to it, and Fig. 2 is a side elevationof the heads of the draw-bars of acouple b,than commonlyused,especiallyin the upper part,to receive the pin, which I makelarger, and construct with a strougextension of the head 0 sufficientlyabove the top of the drawbar to couple by a clevis-link, d, swingingdown over the pin-head onto the upper surface of the draw-bansaidclevis-link being coiled around a bolt, e, by its endsf, and madefast toit, and connected to the draw bar thereby, said bolt passing through ahole in the draw-bar; or it may be a box or cap attached to the top ofthe draw-bar, and being used to swing the link up and down to couple anduncouple the cars.

In order that the link may be worked from the sides of the cars, thebolt 0 is extended each way thereto, and the ends 9 are bent up, asshown, for cranks or levers by which to work it The rod 6 is alsoconnected by an arm, h, with a rod, '0", extending to the top of thecar, for working the link therefrom. The drawbars have the usuallink-socket,-i, and a comnion link,j, may be secured in one or both ofthe coupled draw-bars, to beempln yed in case cars not having theimproved coupling are to be coupled at any time. These links may beshoved back in the sockets, outol' the way, when not to be used. Thepins will be secured by keys j.

The simplicity of this improved coupling, together with itsmanifestly-durable quality, will be understood at once.

I am aware that it is old to employ a link arranged to operate outsideof the draw-head and to take over the head of the-pin of the oppositedraw-head, as is also mechanism for operating the link from the top andsides of the car. v

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to securey Letters Patent- In a car-coupling, the combination, with the draw-heada and coupling pin b, having the upwardly-flared head 0, of the clevisshaped EDWARD. S. CARTER.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR H. MOODY, ED. F. BRowNELL.

